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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X fonts and TeX
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 21:31:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 21:31:43 1987
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You wouldn't. METAFONT doesn't work well when generating low-res
fonts.  By low-res I mean below 200 dpi or so. Quantization effects
start to come in and the bitmaps need tuning. This is time consuming.
Take a look at the VorTeX previewing fonts. Some effort was put into
tuning the fonts in the first release (118 dpi). In the second (120
dpi) they seemed to have given up - there are several MB of fonts and
it's only a previewer after all.

But if you still want to try, it shouldn't be hard to write a pxl font
to X font converter. I say shouldn't with the disclaimer that I have
not done this, although I have done similar conversions. You can find a
description of the format of pxl, pk and gf fonts in past issues of
TUGBOAT.

	Ken